I Regret Almost Everything A Memoir

New York Times Bestseller

The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis.

A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi, taking us from his gritty London childhood in the fifties to his serendipitous arrival in New York, where he founded the era-defining establishments the Odeon, Cafe Luxembourg, and Nell’s. Eloquent and opinionated, Keith McNally writes about the angst of being a child actor, his lack of insights from traveling overland to Kathmandu at nineteen, the instability of his two marriages and family relationships, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety.

Keith McNally, called “The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown” by The New York Times, founded Balthazar restaurant, Balthazar Bakery, Pastis, Morandi, Minetta Tavern, Nell’s, Cafe Luxembourg, and Odeon. He is the author of The Balthazar Cookbook and Schiller’s Liquor Bar Cocktail Collection and the writer and director of two features, The End of The Night and Far From Berlin. He is also 63-millionth in line for the crown of England.